invent.
To design a new process or mechanism.
Meaning & usage
To design a new process or mechanism.
After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
To come upon; to find; to discover.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English inventen, borrowed from Old French inventer, from Latin inventus, perfect passive participle of inveniō (“come upon, meet with, find, discover”), from in (“in, on”) + veniō (“come”); see venture. Compare advent, covent, event, prevent, etc. Displaced native Old English āþenċan (literally “to think out”).
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